Pic(k) of the Week: Zen'd by jazz

Jazz was her zen. 

Or was it frozen lemonade? 

Something cool for a hot afternoon.

Listening to the Joe Gransden Big Band during the Inman Park Festival in Atlanta, Georgia, USA, on 28 April 2019.

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Something Cool

Something Cool is a 'minor' jazz standard written mid 20th-century by composer/lyricist Billy Barnes and performed —and made famous— by the 'cool-jazz' vocalist, June Christy (1925-1990). It's an elaborate and sad fantasy concocted over the offer of a cool drink on a warm day.

Unlike the song's protagonist, the woman in the photo appears blissfully content.

Play on YouTube: https://youtu.be/xwftoLQxnVk

Well, it's true.

It's just a memory I have.

One I almost forgot

'Cause the weather's so hot,

And I'm feeling so bad,

About a date.

Oh, wait!

I'm such a fool!

He's just a guy,

Who stopped to buy me

Something cool!

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Pic(k) of the Week: Strip mall sunset

Who knew that the simple parking lot of a strip mall could provide the backdrop for a magnificent panorama of a post-summer-storm sunset?

Tucker, Georgia, USA. 10 August 2022. (8:14 pm EDT)

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Pic(k) of the Week: Promenade on high from low at the High

Like a latter-day ziggurat, the Promenade skyscraper rises 40-stories —691 feet— above the High Museum, in midtown Atlanta, Georgia, USA. The building is clad in reflective glass, with a stepped, tapering spire and stainless steel fins that are lit at night. It is the 7th-tallest building in the city and, hence, Georgia.

Construction was completed in 1990. Twenty-nine years later, I took the photo, on 26 May 2019.

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Pic(k) of the Week: Calm at crepuscule

Two contemplating sunset, looking east over the Atlantic Ocean.

St. Augustine Beach, Florida, USA. 4 August 2018 (9:08 pm)

And, yes, they knew that the sun sets in the west. But high clouds catch and reflect its light back to the east.

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